Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey say there’s just not enough data to figure out the impact of fracking on water quality. The American Geophysical Union’s Water Resources Research published an article about the USGS study today. “We mined the national water-quality databases from 1970…

In his budget plan unveiled Tuesday, Governor Wolf proposed a $100,000 funding increase to the state Department of Health to create a registry to monitor people who live near natural gas drilling sites. After New York State banned fracking late last year, citing public health…

A 28-year-old Scranton man died Monday afternoon shortly after he lost control of an Arc of Northeast Pennsylvania van full of passengers and crashed into a rock wall in Scranton. Justin Kavulich may have a medical emergency that caused him to lose contro…

A shipment of pineapples that landed in Philadelphia from the Caribbean recently was infested with a "destructive" termite that hasn't been seen in the city before.Photo Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol…

HONORED ... During a beef and beer event hosted by Sons of Italy, Ambler, Saturday, Feb. 28, Bob Ozga, John Killaly, Larry Wilson, Art Hayden and Andre Fabiani were honored for their years of service to youth athletics in the Ambler area. Roughly 200 people attended the…

The environmental group advocating the removal of Wehr's Dam, and the company it hired to study the feasibility of doing so, are scheduled for a presentation at Wednesday's meeting of the South Whitehall Board of Commissioners.…

Following through on his campaign pledge, Governor Wolf made taxing the natural gas industry a central part of his budget proposal Tuesday. Wolf hopes wants to model it on West Virginia, with a tax on both volume and sales. Drillers would pay a five percent…

A fatal accident occurred at around noon today on Route 187 in Wysox Township, according to Wysox Township Fire Chief Brett Keeney.
The vehicle rolled over several times and the driver was partially ejected from the vehicle, according to Keeney.
For more details, please see Wednesday’s edition…

The Germantown Academy Belfry Theater Club presented Tennessee Williams' "Spring Storm" Feb. 27 and 28 in the school's Arts Center, 340 Morris Road, Fort Washington. It was a unique production for the club, featuring an intimate black box theater as well as on-stage seating.…

A little more than a year after a then-13-year-old Oakland girl was declared brain dead, Jahi McMath's family plans to file a lawsuit Tuesday against UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where she received...Photo Credit: Jodi Hernandez This story uses functionality that may not work in…

The initial steps are being taken, onsite, so work can get underway on a memorial at 22nd and Market Streets in Philadelphia, the site of a fatal building collapse that killed 6 people on June 5, 10`3.Photo Credit: Pete Kane…

Senate Republicans today criticized the significant burdens associated with the Wolf budget plan, saying what Pennsylvania needs is relief. Republicans, who hold a 30-19 majority in the Senate, have made…

HARRISBURG – Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today
announced the five most common types of scams reported to the Attorney
General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in 2014. The Bureau received more than
124,000 consumer-related inquiries in 2014. Bas…

HARRISBURG – Attorney
General Kathleen G. Kane today announced the arrest of two Pennsylvania men on
unrelated charges of child pornography. The latest arrests occurred
over the past week in Armstrong and Beaver Counties. The defendants are: Jerami…

HARRISBURG – Attorney
General Kathleen G. Kane today announced that her office’s Bureau of Consumer
Protection will host several consumer education events as part of National
Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) next week. NCPW is a nationwide
campaign o…

HARRISBURG - Attorney
General Kathleen G. Kane today announced charges against a Uniontown podiatrist
and six others in a prescription drug scheme in which the doctor wrote
prescriptions for powerful narcotics that he would share or split with his
co…

HARRISBURG - Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today
announced charges against three people in an ongoing investigation into
fentanyl-laced heroin that killed 22 in Western Pennsylvania last year. "My office created a task force with Westmoreland
Co…